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This encyclopedic book is not only a definitive Rails reference, but an indispensable guide to Software-as-a-Service coding techniques for serious craftspersons. I keep a copy in the lab, a copy at home, and a copy on each of my three e-book readers, and it's on the short list of essential resources for my undergraduate software engineering course.---Armando Fox, adjunct associate professor, University of California, Berkeley Everyone interested in Rails, at some point, has to follow The Rails Way.---Fabio Cevasco, senior technical writer, Siemens AG, and blogger at H3RALD.com I can positively say that it's the single best Rails book ever published to date. By a long shot.---Antonio Cangiano, software engineer and technical evangelist at IBM This book is a great crash course in Ruby on Rails! It doesn't just document the features of Rails, it filters everything through the lens of an experienced Rails developer---so you come our a pro on the other side.---Dirk Elmendorf, co-founder of Rackspace, and Rails developer since 2005 The key to The Rails Way is in the title. It literally covers the "way" to do almost everything with Rails. Writing a truly exhaustive reference to the most popular Web application framework used by thousands of developers is no mean feat. A thankful community of developers that has struggled to rely on scant documentation will embrace The Rails Way with open arms. A tour de force!---Peter Cooper, editor, Ruby Inside In the past year, dozens of Rails books have been rushed to publication. A handful are good. Most regurgitate rudimentary information easily found on the Web. Only this book provides both the broad and deep technicalities of Rails. Nascent and expert developers. I recommend you follow The Rails Way.---Martin Streicher, chief technology officer, McLarchy Interactive; former editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way has always been by my side as a reference while programming Ruby. Many times I had wished there was a book that had the same depth and attention to detail, only focused on the Rails framework. That book is now here and hasn't left my desk for the past month.---Nate Klaiber, Ruby programmer As noted in my contribution to the Afterword: "What is the Rails Way (To You)?," I knew soon after becoming involved with Rails that I had found something great. Now, with Obie's book, I have been able to step into Ruby on Rails development coming from .NET and be productive right away. The applications I have created I believe to be a much better quality due to the techniques I learned using Obie's knowledge.---Robert Baziner, InfoQ.com, .NET and Ruby community editor, and founding member of the Hartford, CT, Ruby Brigade Extremely well written; it's a resource that every Rails programmer should have. Yes, it's that good.---Reuven Lerner, Linux Journal columnist

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Jun 30, 2012 · jhuckestein on Ask HN: How can I learn "advanced" data modelling for Rails?

This might be overkill for you, but at a certain point I just set down for a few days and read The Rails 3 Way front to cover. It's a reference of sorts and it's very complete (afaik). I marked all the things I hadn't known or thought was interesting and made a point of using then right away. It was really dry at times but turned out to be well worth it.
http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Edition-Addison-Wesley-Professio...

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Jun 10, 2012 · michael_fine on Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?

So, before you start with learning Rails, I recommend learning HTML/CSS. It shouldn't take more than two weeks to get a basic understanding, and by doing that you avoid the huge hassle of building a web app while barely scraping by with the formatting. Also, you might want to drop both learning javascript and vim, because you can build a solid web app without js, and it's very hard to learn multiple dissimilar things at once.
After that, a great resource is http://railsforzombies.com/, and codeschool in general. It's a series of incredibly well made video presentations, which you are then tested on. Once/before you finish that, you should work on actually building an application, maybe following http://railstutorial.org/.
Once you have finished that, you are well on your way to proficiency, and probably have enough understanding of rails to build your application. Some great resources are http://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html, http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies-2, and http://api.rubyonrails.org/.
If you have done that, and you still want to learn more, then I would learn more about javascript, and read The Rails 3 Way:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321601661/zenruby-20.... Finally to learn more about Ruby, read Eloquent Ruby: http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio....
Once you have done that, you should have a pretty solid grounding in Ruby, Rails, and web development in general.

⬐ jethrokuan
I've went through rails for zombies. Second thing i went through after poignant.
Was following Nettuts suggested method: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-best-way-to-learn...
Incidentally I met Obie Fernandez in person :D at the Red Dot Ruby Conference in Singapore he sent me a pdf version of his book :D
I'll try out eloquent ruby, maybe after the pickaxe.

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Apr 23, 2012 · shepbook on Learning Ruby on Rails Book/Tutorial Literature

I've heard good things about "The Rails 3 Way". I've not used it yet. I'm still in the "beginner" levels and I've found railstutorial.org to be invaluable.
For Beginners: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
(potentially) For Those More Experienced: http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Edition-Addison-Wesley-Professio...

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Jul 29, 2011 · glasner on Ask HN: [RoR Devs] Where did you learn Ruby on Rails?

You need two main books to get started:
- http://pragprog.com/book/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9 - http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-r...
Read them in that order so that you learn Ruby first. After that your'll want to polish your Ruby and Rails idioms with:
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672328844 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321601661
Enjoy!

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Apr 02, 2011 · nhebb on Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start?

A list of resources from the video:
Web resources:
- http://guides.rubyonrails.org
- http://peepcode.com
- http://railscasts.com
- https://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans
Books:
- http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-... : Agile Web Development with Rails
- http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9 : Programming Ruby 1.9 (Pickaxe book)
- http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-... : The Rails 3 Way

⬐ tvon
Holy crap, thank you. Screencasts are great and all but I'll take text over video almost anytime when it comes to programming tutorials.
On a related note, I was recently directed to http://asciicasts.com/ for railscasts in text format... quite nice.

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